World Bank Rotate Ends the Banning Uganda Loan on Gay Rights

The World Bank claims that it lifts the ban on loans to Uganda, which he created two years ago when the country passed a new draconian law against LGBTK.

In 2023, Uganda voted in some the most stringent anti -mosual legislation in the world, that is, everyone involved certain same -sex actions may be convicted to death.

Since then, hundreds of people have been evicted from their homes, abused or arrested because of their sexuality, according to Uganda on awareness and promotion of human rights.

But the World Bank claims that the new “measures to mitigate the consequences” will reduce the financing in such a way that it does not harm and discriminate against people from LGBTC.

The BBC asked the Uganda Government and the World Bank on further comments.

“The World Bank cannot implement its term of termination mission and increase the overall prosperity on the living planet if all people cannot participate, and use the projects we finance,” said AFP spokesman Thursday, adding that the organization “worked with the government (Ugandan) Anti -disiral.

New projects in the field of “Social Protection, Education and Forced Migration and Refugees,” said the unnamed World Bank of The Reuters Agement.

Analysts say the World Bank is one of Uganda’s largest foreign financing sources that play an important role in the development of infrastructure. Road updates and advanced electricity access Among the projects that the organization supports In East Africa.

But some economists criticize the financing model used by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as a whole, stating that it perpetuates the dependence and undermines the sustainable growth in the poorest countries of the world, linking them to restrictive loan conditions.

Uganda is among several African countries – including Gana and Kenya – What has been witnessed in recent years to reduce LGBTC rights.

In 2023, the news on the Draconian law on Uganda’s Antigamosual Anti -Anti -Anti -Anti -Antimosity was pushed by international condemnation.

It cost countries somewhere from $ 470 million and $ 1.7 billion (£ 347 million) The UK estimates that are engaged in a charity open to business.

Uganda’s Government states that his anti-geek-enclosing reflects the conservative values ​​of his people, but his critics say Permanent attacks on the opposition.

“It’s a low-content fruit,”-a researcher working on Human Rights Watch, Oryem Nyeko, who works in Uganda works in Uganda said CBC at the time.

“It is decorated as something foreign and threatens to children.”

Victims of beating, eviction And worse, they say that the new law of Uganda has strengthened people to attack them based on perceived sexuality.

The fact that the law also provides for a 20-year prison term for “promoting” homosexuality is also considered as an attack on those who defend the rights of the LGBTC, but the government denies it.